Summarizing a Central Idea

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Choruses were comprised of:
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When Huck refers to “trees with Spanish moss on them, hanging down from the limbs like long, gray beards,” he is using an exampl

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Describe the tone of each stanza in Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “Poet as Hero.” Provide textual evidence to support your answer.

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Sassoon begins the poem with an angry tone. The speaker describes how Sassoon has changed from sweet to angry:

You’ve heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented,

Mocking and loathing War: you’ve asked me why

Of my old, silly sweetness I’ve repented—

My ecstasies changed to an ugly cry.

As the poem progresses, Sassoon shifts to why he was hopeful when he first started out as a military officer:

You are aware that once I sought the Grail,

Riding in armour bright, serene and strong;

And it was told that through my infant wail

There rose immortal semblances of song.

Sassoon ends the poem with a tone of being content that he has changed in this process:

But now I’ve said good-bye to Galahad,

And am no more the knight of dreams and show:

For lust and senseless hatred make me glad,

And my killed friends are with me where I go.

Wound for red wound I burn to smite their wrongs;

And there is absolution in my songs.

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In 3–5 complete sentences, thoroughly explain how the protagonist's cultural background affects his or her actions and choices i

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Answer: There was no much emphasis or mention about the cast's cultural background. Certain aspects are based on assumptions. I feel that the historical background is seen most important, to understand the cast's behavior.

Explanation:

Russian author Varlam Shalamov wrote a short story on Condensed Milk. Shalamov spent 15 years of life in Gulag, a camp where Russian forced-labor was being operated. This story narrates his terrifying experiences.

He was a political person, which shows that he was not a regular criminal but has been arrested as a thief. The treatment given to a thief was better than what he has been through. He was arrested based on suspicion as the Stalin Government found him as a threat though he was considered an enemy amongst the people. This is because of expressing his opinion that the Soviet Regime considered/felt inappropriate. Shalamov demonstrated his brilliance despite his deteriorating health at the camp. He was offered help to escape but wasn't fooled either. He lived amongst people whom he couldn't trust anymore.

While going through a harrowing treatment at the camp, the combatant realized that Shestakov was setting a trap. Shestakov was the only person with an office job with privileges. During those times, being with privileges was considered being good with the government and its people. Shalamov was afraid of Shestakov, as they were the only ones working in the field where Shestakov is trained. Shalamov was incredulous as to who had assigned Sestakov for the training and what he might have been offered?. Everything in the camp had to be paid with either another man's blood or his life.

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Compare how Chesterton and the author of “The Instinct that Makes People Rich” interpret the Midas myth. How do these different

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The writer of "The Instinct that Makes People Rich" interprets the Midas myth as the story of a man who could not fail.

Chesterton, however, says that Midas DID fail. He starved because he could not eat gold.

Chesterton says that success always comes at the sacrifice of something else, something "domestic." (By this he means that, yes, a millionaire has money but will lack something else, like love or friendship, etc.) He says that people who think Midas succeeded are just like the author of the article -- both worship money.

Chesterton says that worshipping money has nothing to do with success and everything to do with snobbery.

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